Declaration Of Independence: Punishment For The Boston Tea Party

One of the reasons for the colonies breaking away from Britain was how King George mistreated them. We can see this in Document 7, as Jefferson writes about the grievances the colonies have against him. He implores the king to be more “open...to liberal and expanded thought”. Still the king ignores both the Olive Branch Petition and Declaration of Rights and Grievances that the Continental Congress sends him. This shows his lack of care for the colonies. Another mistreatment that the colonists receive from the British is the Boston Massacre. This event raised tensions in the the colonies against the British, who were perceived as attacking unarmed citizens. Soldiers killed innocent people that night with guns, angering many colonists. Finally, the Intolerable Acts were a large reason that the colonists felt justified in declaring independence. Document 15 by Samuel Adams talks about how the colony of Boston is punished for the Boston Tea party “by the shutting of the harbor and other marks of revenge”. The retaliation from the British after the protest in Boston Harbor was an overreaction that angered many colonists. There

During the colonial period in America, the British government had a lot of control over the American colonies. To get money after a long and costly war, the British raised taxes, tightened trade regulations, and created strict laws that each of the colonies had to follow. However, many colonists viewed the new laws differently than the British Government did. They believed that the Parliament was interfering with their unalienable rights. Many American colonists wanted to abolish this, which eventually led to the writing of the Declaration of Independence.

In the novel, Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America, the author Benjamin L. Carp gives an incredibly in-depth description of the events of the Boston tea party. In the Introduction, Carp argues that the “party” was not a singular event, but rather a catalyst for the impending Revolution. He presents each chapter as a new aspect of the event while offering primary sources, letters, newspapers, and magazines as compelling evidence. Each chapter is focused on a very specific topic and perfectly leads to the next. Carp gives the reader a concise layout of context, causes, proceedings, and the aftermath of this rebellious show of resolve and determination. By giving the reader the political and cultural

Civil disobedience, which is when a person or a group of people protest against laws, taxes, etc. in a peaceful manner, has been displayed many times in the past. One of these instances included a memorable American event: the Boston Tea Party. During the Revolutionary War (1770s), Britain had colonization of America, commonly referred to as the Thirteen Colonies. The British East India Company, who performed commerce with Asia, were having monetary issues, so they needed to find a way to get revenue. In May 1773, Parliament passed the Tea Act, which gave the BEIC a portion of the American tea trade. However, this act did not put colonists at ease, because even the cheapest sellers could have lost business to the company (who now had better

One of the reasons the Founding Fathers had written the Declaration of Independence was because they wanted America to be free so that Britain could stop taxing the citizens. There were many acts going around such as the Tea Act, the Sugar Act, and the Stamp Act. The colonists had no representation in any of it. Sparknote had stated in their article, "the King interfered with the colonists' right to self-government and for a fair Judicial system." This had ticked the colonists off along with the acts. The King had also "instituted legislation that affected the colonists without their consent." This wasn't fair to the colonists and it would be understandable that they wanted independence.

In the Declaration of Independence, one of the reasons given for declaring independence from Britain is “For taking away our Charters: abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments: For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with the power to legislate us in all cases whatsoever”. The colonists had been accustomed to being loyal to Britain while still having their own rules and governments, so when Britain issued the Declaratory Act in 1766, which stated that Parliament had the ability to “bind the colonies in all cases whatsoever”, the colonists felt threatened. Governments determine the way of life of the people, so this grievance listed in the Declaration of Independence reminded the colonists that their laws, their forms of governments, and essentially the colonists’ abilities to choose how to run their colonies was taken from Parliament.

The Coercive Acts, also known as the Intolerable Acts, were a series of British measures passed in 1774 designed to punish Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party. The Intolerable Acts were the cause for the American War for Independence because the colonists felt they were being controlled with the implement of vigorous policies in the American colonies. The Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, the Act for the Impartial Administration of Justice, the Quebec Act, and the Quartering Act were all passed as a retaliation to the Boston Tea Party and gave colonists the right to react. The Boston Port Act angered the colonists the most, the Act closed the Boston harbor to all shipping until the town had compensated the Dutch East India Company for the destruction of its tea and assured the King of it’s future loyalty.

In the prewar decade from 1765 to 1775 there was an escalating in anti-Brits opinion in the American language colony. Some reason that this escalated was that people felt as though they didn’t really owe the Brits anything but that the Brits owed them something for taking care of the colonies. Ever since they imposed the stamp act the American settlers felt insecure with having to pay so many taxes to the British people because they owed a huge national debt that they had to pay for colonizing the American colonies. The settlers responded with more boycotts, daughters of liberty and newspapers started displaying support for the colonists; the sons of liberty, the newspapers started displaying support for the settlers, riots, and some published names of the merchants that were

The rebellion’s successfulness is a product of the results achieved by those taking a stand. In response to the colonists’ defiant actions, Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts (Wallace 1). The Intolerable Acts included the Boston Port Act. This bill “shut off the city’s sea trade” (“Boston Tea Party”). This act would hold strong until the colony paid its debt to the British East India Company. The Boston Port Act greatly burdened the colony and resulted with the additional twelve colonies sending supplies to Boston in an effort to provide assistance (“The Intolerable Acts”). The Intolerable Acts also included the Massachusetts Government Act. This act declared the government of the colony to be unfit, unqualified and in need of improvement (“The Intolerable Acts”). This rebellion was the first reaction leading to the Revolutionary War. The Revolutionary War began

James 5 My paper is going to be on this question Explain the purpose of the Tea Act of 1773. Which Americans were most affected by this act and how did they respond to the Tea Act of 1773? One main point from my first paragraph is the Tea act of 1773 was one of the very many taxes and laws put on the American Colonies by the British. One point from my second paragraph would be the affect this Act had on the Americans with business’s.

The Boston Tea Party took place on December 16, 1773. The event took place in Boston. The Boston Tea Party happened because the colonist felt like they should not have to pay taxes on British tea. It was also a response to the Tea Act. The tea act was an act placed on the colonist that only the British India Company could sell tea to them.

The Acts, unreasonable taxes, and total unjustness; but all for what? these were all things forced upon the colonists by Britain. This would eventually lead to something bigger….The American Revolution. Did the colonists have the right to declare war on England because of how they were treated? I think the colonists were justified in breaking away from Britain because lack of land, British occupation / no freedom, and too much taxing.

American history is full of battles and freedom fighters. From the Boston tea party to voting rights. America fought against a king who was unfair and unjust. They may have had a civil war but it was also for the idea that rights were being taken away. The country has many amazing historical characters that made it the country it is today. This paper will discuss the Boston Tea Party, George Washington’s inaugural address, his warnings upon leaving office as well as the Boston Massacre, the Battles of Lexington and Concord, and John Adams on voting rights.

Have you ever believed in something so strongly, that you risked something you loved for it? Our founding fathers did. I believe that the people of the American Revolution were a society of rebels because that's how our country started, certain acts of history can have influence on every day life, and because that's how we get our country to hear us.

Ten years later, Parliament passed the English Bill of Rights which separated and limited power of the government while including many rights that protected citizens. The evolution of British documents and rights, when combined, created the rights of Englishmen. The rights of Englishmen are precedents of common law and many documents such as the Magna Carta and Charter of Liberties previously mentioned. Although the English government had enacted several measures protecting individual rights between the 13th and 17th centuries, the English monarch still overstepped its powers. Examples of this would be: excessive taxes on British goods, taxation without representation, and quartering or presence of soldiers in peacetime. Due to events like the Boston Massacre and the Intolerable Act, the colonies felt as if the British Government had stepped too far. These acts lead to rebellion from the colonists and eventually the creation of the Declaration of Independence that explained the overreach of the British government, allowed the establishment of rights, and a basis for an adequate